NVIDIA Networking
Introducing the DPU from NVIDIA – Is It Time to Embrace Your FOMO?
Is it still true that death and taxes are the only two certainties in life? What about the rise and rise of new acronyms in the IT world? From ADSL to ZIP files, meandering through CAPTCHA, HTML, SASE, SD-WAN and URL, to name just a few, you might be forgiven for suffering eventually from FOMO or else even planning to go AWOL. But please don’t hit the MIA button until we’ve had a chance to chat about DPUs and their relatively recent arrival in the CPU and GPU family. Belinda Duke, Product Manager: NVIDIA Networking at Networks Unlimited, explains, “Certainly it’s true that the information technology field uses a lot of acronyms, but joking aside, there is another acronym in town – we think it’s very exciting to start working with the DPU, or ‘data processing unit’, which, according to NVID...
Mellanox Sponsors Award-winning Showjumper
As part of NVIDIA, Mellanox Technologies, a leading supplier of high-performance, Ethernet and InfiniBand networking solutions for servers, storage and hyper-converged infrastructure, is currently sponsoring award-winning showjumper, Mellanox My Hot Chocolate, and his owner and rider, Belinda Duke. It is a wonderful example of the phrase ‘Small is mighty’ – and an innovative, ‘right-brained’ kind of idea to unpack. Duke is a Product Manager at Networks Unlimited Africa, which distributes Mellanox’ intelligent interconnect solutions throughout the continent. She explains, “NVIDIA is in the business of being fast, innovative, agile and forward-thinking. The Mellanox SN2010 switch is small but it does a huge job. Mellanox My Hot Chocolate is a small horse but he is a proven winner. Bigger doe...
